for savings, one of the beautiful Wallace Nutting photographs of a New
England apple tree in full pink and white bloom, an artistic brown
basket for apples to be kept on the buffet or used for the breakfast
table, and a delightful fruit bowl with an apple border.

One girl had contributed a little booklet of choice apple recipes, a
jar of apple butter and another of home-made apple sauce. One artistic
member of the group had stenciled a crash table runner for the porch
table with a conventional apple design in yellow and orange and green,
and another girl put the same design very decoratively on a round box
of painted tin.

Two of the prettiest gifts were a cunning sports handkerchief with a
cluster of apples stamped in one corner, and a smart flat silk hat
ornament in the shape of three apples.

Before the happy bride-to-be had finished exclaiming over her gifts,
the hostess served buffet refreshments that were as pretty as they
were delicious. There were little individual molds of pink apple
tapioca, topped with whipped cream and accompanied by small home-made
cakes, frosted uniquely. Each one had in the center of its white icing
a miniature apple bough as a decoration, made from two red maraschino
cherries, two leaf-shaped pieces of green angelica and a bit of
citron.

As a surprise for each girl, the hostess had provided a tiny bunch of
apple sachets, easily made from scraps of apple-colored silks.

"I like apples more than ever now that I've begun to see their
possibilities," the guest of honor declared.

AN OLD ROSE SHOWER

For a girl who was very fond of everything rose-colored, her friends
planned an "old-rose" shower on Valentine's Day.

As a result, among the gifts were rose-colored silk stockings, a
rose-flowered silk party bag, an old-rose boudoir cap, slippers to
match, and towels with old-rose initials. Each gift was wrapped in
white tissue paper and tied with old-rose ribbon, and they were
all presented on a big tray, the bottom of which was rose-flowered
cretonne under glass.

The refreshments were raspberry ice and tiny cakes frosted in rose and
white, and each guest carried away as a favor a wee glove handkerchief
with an old-rose border.

A KITTY SHOWER

It sounds odd, but the engaged girl for whom it was given was so very
fond of pussy cats that her chum knew that a kitty shower would just
exactly suit her.

The invitations, written on cats cut from heavy paper, read